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Contains the full text of over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from books published from the 1600s to 1900. Readers can browse the books or they can search the database for words in any of several fields: author, title, dedication, epigraph, first line, or any line. The poets included are listed in Jacob Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1955-95). APD complements 20th Century American Poetry, African-American Poetry 1760-1900, and 20th-Century African American Poetry.